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By Jay Lindsay
Mashpee, Massachusetts (AP)
From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe's religion.
The Wampanoag – the tribe that welcomed the Pilgrims in the 17th century and known as “The People of the First Light” – practice sacred rituals requiring an unblocked view of the sunrise.
Mashpee, Massachusetts (AP)
From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe's religion.
The Wampanoag – the tribe that welcomed the Pilgrims in the 17th century and known as “The People of the First Light” – practice sacred rituals requiring an unblocked view of the sunrise.
